'stay and fight'

[Ravine]

I'm not inciting anything.
However, I believe that race has plenty to do with Detroit's problems, and I don't see any point in avoiding that subject when discussing those problems.

[English]

I'm not inciting anything.
However, I believe that race has plenty to do with Detroit's problems, and I don't see any point in avoiding that subject when discussing those problems.

I agree. However, I also believe that we use race in Detroit and in the United States as a stand-in for the unspeakable third rail in our society. As more people of color reach the middle and upper classes, and choose not to identify with their ethnic groups, and as more white people fall into the underclass, we will indeed have to touch that rail whether we like it or not.

As long as we pretend all the white people are rich and privileged racists, and all the black people are poor and dumb criminals, and there are no other kinds of people in the country other than those two categories, we will continue living in a fantasyland, and our city, state, and nation will continue to crumble around us.